Central Rocky Mountain Wildflowers - Including Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks

Informationen zum Autor Formerly a forest service ecologist, range manager, and forester, Wayne Phillips is now devoted full time to teaching and writing about the flora of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains. He has taught botany/wildflower classes at the Yellowstone Institute since 1982. His teaching experience also includes botany classes as a faculty affiliate at the University of Montana, Montana State University–Northern and the University of Great Falls. He is currently the president of the Montana Native Plant Society and the author of Northern Rocky Mountain Wildflowers (FalconGuides). His hobbies include ethnobotany, herbalism, wildflower photography, canoeing, and mountaineering. Wayne’s current, on-going botanical studies include collecting and photographing all of the plant species that were collected and described by Meriwether Lewis in 1804–1806. He is contributing this collection to the Lewis and Clark Expedition Interpretive Center near his home in Great Falls, Montana. Klappentext Fully revised and updated, Central Rocky Mountain Widflowers features plants from the Yellowstone Ecosystem of Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, north to the Rocky Mountain Front and west through Central Idaho to the Blue Mountains of Oregon and Washington. With detailed descriptions of over 260 wildflowers, arranged by color and family for easy identification, this guide is perfect for experienced botanists and novices alike. Zusammenfassung Field guide features over 260 wildflowers found in the heart of the Rockies. Includes vibrant color photos and descriptions.

Product details

• Authors: H Wayne Phillips, H. Wayne Phillips
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.04.2012
• EAN: 9780762777921
• ISBN: 978-0-7627-7792-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Falcon Guides Wildflowers; Wildflower Series; Wildflower Series; Falcon Guides Wildflowers
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Nature guide; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Reiseführer, NATURE / General, Nature / Plants / Flowers, USA Westen, natural history, Travel & holiday, Nature & the natural world: general interest, Trees, wildflowers & plants, Trees, wildflowers & plants: general interest